Introducing
CyberScore
A new way to measure your school's cybersecurity posture
CyberScore is the free-to-use, global standard for cybersecurity in education. Schools and school groups use their CyberScore to measure resilience and highlight priorities.
With a scoring system tailored to specific regional and national standards, CyberScore helps schools benchmark their cybersecurity progress.
What is CyberScore?
Benchmark, improve, protect
CyberScore helps schools build safer digital environments worldwide by providing a clear, actionable framework for measuring, improving, and sustaining cybersecurity resilience. By using your CyberScore to guide your actions, you will reduce cybersecurity risks and foster best practices based on your most relevant guidance and standards. It's the easiest way to measure and improve a school's cyber resilience.
It sets out a long-term vision for all schools to provide a safe and secure learning environment and that no pupil’s education is interrupted by a cyber-attack.
Benchmark
CyberScore presents statements that you respond to based on the cybersecurity activities your school is taking. These statements fall under four categories:
- Planning and preparation
- Internal to the school
- External to the school
- Expectations and achievements
- By answering statements and earning achievements, you generate your CyberScore, which updates in real-time based on your responses. As the tool progresses, you will also be able to benchmark your school's progress against national averages to see where you rank in each area.
Statements automatically feed into national expectations, such as the DfE Cyber Security standards, so that you can benchmark your progress towards these. Statements serve as a step-by-step framework that helps schools address critical vulnerabilities, enhance policies and procedures, and adopt a proactive approach to cybersecurity.

Improve
CyberScore provides actionable insights and clear pathways to improvement in a self-paced and easy-to-use way. It includes best practice recommendations based on different areas your school should focus on and structured ‘tracks’ to guide your progress.
You should see CyberScore as a 'progress path' to improvement. We have developed the progression path with educationalists, using best practices adopted by hundreds of schools. Following the suggested actions and pathways will keep you on the 'happy path' of continuous improvement.
Protect
First and foremost, we developed CyberScore to give every school in the world autonomy to protect themselves from cyber threats.
CyberScore is self-paced and completely free to access whether you are a Secure Schools customer or not, and that will never change.
We will continuously add statements and pathways to CyberScore, guiding your school towards additional layers of protection from emerging risks and awareness of the latest and most robust preventative measures available to your school or trust.
Get started with CyberScore
To start benchmarking your school, simply hit the 'Get started' button below to sign-up! CyberScore is completely free to use, and you can start completing statements right away!
CyberScore is in early 'request access' only - by completing the below form, we will give you an exclusive sneak peek!